Quote Originally Posted by Kraxis
He lost most of the army he had taken with him, but he had sent about half around the other way, prior to his march to the sea.

Also, it is being specilated that the slightly nuts Alexander actually punished his army for their 'disloyalty' in not following him where he wanted to go. The army he took through Gedrosia were the Macedonians, while the 'spared' part was mainly the eastern troops.
Indeed. Something like this is alluded to in Paul Doherty's book The Death of Alexander The Great, an interesting read about the various controversies surrounding his death. Whatever actually occurred, it is certain that there was a deep division within his army after the India campaign. All men may "reach and fall", as the Ptolemy character in Alexander the movie says, but Alexander sort of overreached.

Getting a little back on task, would you say that the Greeks probably never developed the large cavalry arm that Phillip of Macedonia did because, unlike him, they never planned to invade Asia? It seems that necessity drove that train to me.